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2005-02-10 Arabia

UAE to get delivery of first F-16 batch in May

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Posted by Steve White 2005-02-10 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now all they've to do is to get 80 qualified F-16 pilots.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-02-10 1:48:43 PM|| 2005-02-10 1:48:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 That may be a problem. But not as big as getting maintenance crews.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-10 1:50:33 PM|| 2005-02-10 1:50:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 It depends on how the treat ~~infidel dhimmis~~ foreign guest workers.

Posted by jackal 2005-02-10 1:58:46 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-10 1:58:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 includes delivery, training, construction of air bases and other related facilities, spare parts and maintenance

Could this mean USAF and retired USAF? Just a thought. Sounds like a lot of Americans involved in this. So, just another way of getting 80 planes in this region?

Posted by Sherry 2005-02-10 4:11:05 PM|| 2005-02-10 4:11:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Insallah! The infidel has leaked us a fine thing. I see seven ways to make money.

Posted by Abu Crew Chief 2005-02-10 7:08:52 PM|| 2005-02-10 7:08:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Helllooooo Iran!

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-10 7:12:57 PM|| 2005-02-10 7:12:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mighty attractive package. Wonder who's got them worried?

I give you three guesses, and the first two don't count...Or the same ones that now have Mr. Blair starting to be conceerned...

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-10 7:13:43 PM|| 2005-02-10 7:13:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The UAE is almost "normal", as far as the M.E. goes, anyway.

First time I went to Abu Dhabi My friend and I got out of the taxi at the hotel and went around to the trunk to wait for the driver to open it up so we could grab our luggage. There was this strange thumping sound coming from the hotel. My friend and I looked at each other - neither of us knew what it was. Then someone came out of the hotel front door - and we realized it was the disco club. After 6 months in Saudi, we had fogotten what disco mega-bass felt like, lol!

Bikinis on the beach, bangers for breakfast, and an amazing 6 ft blonde BA Stew I met in the bar helped me rediscover all sorts of real world, um, stuff, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-02-10 7:19:37 PM|| 2005-02-10 7:19:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 And if our Air Force guys are included in the package, it would be easy peasy in case of emergency to call them up on that 8-year recall thingy that had some Reservists up in arms last week. I realize that fancy airplanes without pilots or mechanics are very pretty hunks of metal, but during a shooting war thems the breaks.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-10 8:48:11 PM|| 2005-02-10 8:48:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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